Hyracoidea

Translingual

Dendrohyrax arboreus

Etymology

Hyrax (“former genus of hyraxes”) +‎ -oidea (“resembling”)

Proper noun

Hyracoidea

A taxonomic order within the class Mammalia – the hyraxes.

Hypernyms

(order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria - subclass; Eutheria - infraclass; Epitheria - magnorder; Afrotheria - superorder; Paenungulata - clade

Hyponyms

(order): Procaviidae (sole family)

References

Hyracoidea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Hyracoidea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Hyracoidea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Hyracoidea at the Tree of Life Web Project
Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248

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